<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Bernie Innocenti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 13:32 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:<br> <br> > Yes, but no. The support booting of their own proprietary images so<br> > you'd have to produce a separate image for each type of VM technology<br> > you wish to use and then ensure you have the drivers included in the<br> > kernel as well. In most cases you need non open tools to be able to<br> > produce these images as well. Hence the reason that the easiest way to<br> > support all VMs is to use a .iso image and let the user use liveinst<br> > to install to the VM technology of their choice. It gets even more<br> > complex if you wish to support it using the Virtual Desktop stuff that<br> > is hitting the market..... that is a whole new level of fun!<br> <br> </div>Sadly, you're right. I had forgotten because recenrtly I've been using<br> only QEMU, which uses plain files (besides its "proprietary" format<br> cow2).<br> <br> Ok, I agree that the .iso file will have to stay around, which doesn't<br> prevent livecd-iso-to-disk from being buried for good. liveinst might<br> indeed be the right tool for all the usecases we care about: VMs, USB<br> sticks and hard-drive installations.<br> <br> Later, we may also consider uploading a few pre-converted images for the<br> convenience of users.<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Yes, Virtualisation is one of the major components of my job so I run into the pain of disk conversions every day! Even between different versions of product from the same vendor! And the supposed interchange format is a complete waste of time :-(<br> <br>Peter <br></div></div><br>